Changes

40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to http://demo.dolibarr.org.

40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to http://demo.dolibarr.org.

If you offer a commercial hosting solution (Saas) with a possible demo or online subscription, you must:

If you offer a commercial hosting solution (Saas) with an online subscription that can be used as demo, you must:

- show onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo http://demo.dolibarr.org if you don't have yours). Also, the link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears only on this second page, not on main demo page.

- show onto same page, both links to your commercial solution and link to a free shared online demo (use http://demo.dolibarr.org if you don't have yours).  

Just take a look at page used on dolibarr.org to see how it must be: http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo

- Also, the link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears only on this second page that is your company page, not on the page of the community portal.

Goal is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).

- You must also provide links of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show community project is available on several providers). Just take a look, to see how it must be, on http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo. If you don't want to maintain a list on community portal, you can replace links (yours and the 2 other competitors by the following link: partner.dolibarr.org)

 

Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule).

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google AdWords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (just because we know a portal without a demo link or with a too important "commercial look" is a waste of time).

Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google AdWords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (just because we know a portal without a demo link or with a too important "commercial look" is a waste of time).